[DECtalk] recording eloquence directly

Raymond Grote musicalman1 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 29 22:40:29 EST 2008


Yeah it's still a formant synth as far as I know. Although I think it has been overpowered by Real Speak which is not a formant synth, but is sample-based like AT&T. I don't really like it though. I think each voice is too unique and the selection is not large enough to have such unique voices. The only peramitors are volume and speed, and speed doesn't work that well. Perhaps ViaVoice or whatever it is, is still around.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Corine Bickley 
  To: DECtalk Discussions 
  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:10 PM
  Subject: Re: [DECtalk] recording eloquence directly


  i'm very interested in how these voices sound to you folks who use tts systems all the time. i thought Eloquence was a formant-based synthesizer like DECtalk, at least it started out that way. the Eloquence system used to be owned by a company called Eloquent, but then it was bought out by, i think, ScanSoft, and then i lost track. i have no idea what is now sold as Eloquence. 
  i haven't heard much about ViaVoice in a long time.

  thanks to you all for your comments - corine

   
  On 2/28/08, Raymond Grote <musicalman1 at comcast.net> wrote: 
    I'm pretty sure eloquence is protected and only jaws can use it. I suspect it'd only work if you bought the synth directly from its company, but I could be wrong. ViaVoice does sound like Eloquence and I believe that is where Eloquence came from. This is interesting.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Katie Madison 
      To: DECtalk Discussions 
      Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:09 PM
      Subject: Re: [DECtalk] recording eloquence directly

       
      Hello Orhan,
      Another way my friend told me to record eloquence is to use a free program called d speech. It allows you to convert text to audio using any SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices you have. If you have jaws or window eyes, eloquence is a SAPI 4 voice. Also, there's another alternative. If you have this scanning software called open book, you can use it's save to audio feature to convert any typed text to audio. Open book comes with IBM viavoice, witch sounds much like eloquence. If you do not have open book, I recommend d speech. I don't remember the site, but if you Google search d speech, you should find the site. If what I said doesn't help, you can also do what Blake said and record from the sound card. It may require editing because you may not want everything eloquence says to be included in your file.
      If you need further help, you can contact me privately anytime by email at katiewht at sbcglobal.net, or add dectalkgirl1987 to your skype contacts.
      Have a good day.
      Katie

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: orhan deniz 
        To: DECtalk list 
        Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:28 PM
        Subject: [DECtalk] recording eloquence directly

         
        hey guys, is there a way to record eloquence directly from the synthesiser, like people have done in the DECtalk archive.

        thanks in advance,
        orhan deniz.
        ways to contact me:
        msn/windows live ID:
        orhan1793 at hotmail.co.uk
        e-mail:
        orhan.deniz63 at gmail.com
        skype: 
        orhan.deniz63


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